William Bolcom

William Bolcom - American composer and pianist

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William Bolcom
William Bolcom
William Bolcom
William Bolcom
William Bolcom
William Bolcom
William Bolcom

About William Bolcom

William Elden Bolcom (born May 26, 1938) is an American composer and pianist. He has received the Pulitzer Prize and three Grammy Awards. Bolcom is a professor of music composition at the University of Michigan. He is married to mezzo-soprano Joan Morris. Bolcom was born in Seattle, Washington. At the age of 11, he entered the University of Washington to study composition privately with George Fredrick McKay and John Verall and piano with Madame Berthe Poncy Jacobson. He later studied with Darius Milhaud at Mills College while working on his Master of Arts degree, with Leland Smith at Stanford University while working on his D.M.A., and with Olivier Messiaen at the Paris Conservatoire, where he received the 2éme Prix de Composition. Bolcom won the Pulitzer Prize for music in 1988 for 12 New Etudes for Piano. In the fall of 1994, he was named the Ross Lee Finney Distinguished University Professor of Composition at the University of Michigan, a position which he still holds.

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William Bolcom — Top 13 songs

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William Bolcom Gershwin Song-Book, song transcriptions (18) for piano: I Got Rhythm
William Bolcom Graceful Ghost Rag
William Bolcom Cello Suite No. 1 in C minor
William Bolcom Three Ghost Rags For Piano: Poltergeist Rag
William Bolcom Seattle Slew Suite - Louisville Orch/Lawrence Leighton Smith - Bolcom: Symphony No. 1, Symphony No. 3, Seattle Slew Orchestral Suite - Louisville
William Bolcom Recuerdos, Latin American Dances: 2. Paseo, for 2 Pianos - Pianoduo Uwe Berkemer & Hatem Nadim
William Bolcom The Garden of Eden
William Bolcom Graceful Ghost Rag
William Bolcom Graceful Ghost Rag - William Bolcom, p - Let's Do It: Bolcom & Morris at Aspen - Omega
William Bolcom Last Rag
William Bolcom Graceful Ghost
William Bolcom Graceful Ghost Rag
William Bolcom Ghost Rags
Gershwin Song-Book, song transcriptions (18) for piano: I Got Rhythm
Graceful Ghost Rag
Cello Suite No. 1 in C minor
Three Ghost Rags For Piano: Poltergeist Rag
Seattle Slew Suite - Louisville Orch/Lawrence Leighton Smith - Bolcom: Symphony No. 1, Symphony No. 3, Seattle Slew Orchestral Suite - Louisville
Recuerdos, Latin American Dances: 2. Paseo, for 2 Pianos - Pianoduo Uwe Berkemer & Hatem Nadim
The Garden of Eden
Graceful Ghost Rag
Graceful Ghost Rag - William Bolcom, p - Let's Do It: Bolcom & Morris at Aspen - Omega
Graceful Ghost
Graceful Ghost Rag
Ghost Rags